Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“No, it’s not. She’s in the enemy pack I was sent to scout.” I told her the truth right away. “I can’t go anywhere near her. I can’t tell her who I really am, where I’m really from, or anything. If I did, they would know that Joaquin sent me to spy on them all.” I was still smiling but I felt like crying.
“Carter.” She cried as if my pain was hers, this was one reason why I loved her so much, she was so empathetic. “We will work something out. Maybe we can convince her to leave that pack and join us.” She tried to sooth me.
“I don’t think she will, she’s the Alpha’s daughter.” She gasped at my words.
“Carter.” She sighed.
I could tell she wanted to talk but I was spent, I had to leave.
“Wait, Carter.” She called out. “Take these.” She handed me a bag full of gifts.
“Don’t you want to deliver them yourself?”
“I can’t go anywhere, not until the exams that is.”
“You really haven’t left the house in a month?” That shocked me to hear.
“Nope, except for going up into the mountains and forest, and I can’t do that anymore.”
“We will find whoever is responsible for all of this Rivi, we will get your life back to normal.” I declared firmly.
“That ship has sailed, Carter, it will never be normal again.”
“You’re probably right.” I agreed.
After that I left and hurried home. I felt the need to sulk again, to be alone with my broken heart.
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Emmalee
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I had hoped that my dad was right. That the man I had scented was in the pack somewhere. I had never smelled anything like him before. His scent was intoxicating, wonderful, amazing, and gone.
I looked around the pack for days and couldn’t find him. I even stopped helping with the massive party as much. I just wanted to find the man who had gone missing. Why had he disappeared?
I was getting depressed, moping so much that my family was worried about me. I was on break from my classes until the next semester started in January, so all I did was mope around the house.
One day, my mom came to me to try and break me out of my funk.
“Emmalee!” She snapped at me as I was mechanically going through my day. “You need to stop this.”
“What mom?” I asked her, confused about what I had done wrong just now.
“This incessant moping around.” She glared at me.
“I’m sorry mom.” I felt the tears sting again. Ever since my mate disappeared that day I have felt like the tears were closer than ever before.
“I don’t want to see you crying anymore, sweetheart.” She reached for me, placing her slender hand on my shoulder. Mom looked so much like me, or was it that I looked like her. We had the same hair and the same eyes. We both had slender frames and soft features, but where I always seemed to look young no matter what I did, my mom looked elegant and sophisticated at all times. She was the perfect Luna.
“Mom.” I sobbed as I looked at her, she used her grip on my shoulder to pull me into her chest. She was just a couple inches taller than me and I fit against her perfectly. “Why did he run away from me?”
“Honey, you don’t know that he ran away from you. Like your father told you, it could have been an old scent.
“I don’t think it was, Momma. I think he was there. I heard him and his scent was so thick and strong.”
“We will find him honey.” She rubbed soothing circles into my back. “We’ll find him, and you’ll both be happy and everything will be just fine.
“How, Momma? How can we find him? I have been searching the pack. I have been looking for him and he’s not here.”
“You’ve hardly seen them all.” She laughed. “That’s why your father is going to hold a pack Christmas party this year. We will get all the men here together and you can scent them all at the same time.”
“It won’t work.”
“Don’t be so pessimistic.” She scolded me. “Where did my bright, cheery daughter go?” She was leveling a steady, yet firm, look at me.
“How can it work?” I asked her this time, deciding to take a different approach.
“Because, you will walk around them and if you smell him you will catch him. Simple as that.”
“What am I supposed to do Mom, tackle him?” I laughed at the thought.
“If that’s what it takes to stop him from getting away then why not?” She didn’t laugh, she just looked at me with her serene, regal eyes. She was serious?
